On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 05:01:42PM +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: > Alan Cox wrote: > > On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 20:46:08 -0800 > > Johnny Luong <johnny.linux-ide@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> If possible, I would like to know if its worthwhile simply just to get another > >> SATA drive / different controller / cable rather than trying to figure out > >> this PATA drive on SATA/PATA controller... see attached for bug report and > >> config file. I'm not on this email list so if you can CC that would be > >> appreciated. > > > > I don't think so. Wine seems to have fed the drive a command that upset > > it to the point it needed power cycling. That may also however be a > > drive/controller that don't know how to clear data stuck after a wrong > > transfer length from an application. In that case 2.6.24-rc6 (or 2.6.24 > > once out) may actually fix the problem. > > > > If it doesn't then we need to look at it further and find out what is > > going on to crash the drive. > > Another possibility is that the drive requires DEVICE RESET to clear its > FIFO or whatever. I'm working on DEVICE RESET. Will post patch soon. > Johnny, please hold on to the hardware for testing. > > Thanks. > > -- > tejun Since it may be a software issue, I've simply kept the drive in place. I did upgrade to 2.6.24-rc8 a couple of days ago though and haven't seen that strange HSM error. Thanks for the help, -Johnny - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
